TRAVEL, SCIENCE, MUSINGS Posts
These are my blog posts spanning my interests in travel, science, and musings about miscellaneous topics.
Are you tired of the commercialized Christmas season in the USA? Do you get worn out from the frenetic shopping and spending and the scurrying through jostling crowds of crass consumers? If yes, then you...
(The items I list here are from my special list of the best things to do in Verona. But in all honesty this is only a partial list. For the sake of brevity I forced myself to restrict the list to just...
Perugia is a charming city, tucked away on the slopes of gentle Umbrian hills. It has a nice, large historic center ringed by more modern development. But in the city center you will find more than 2500...
This post will show a way to calculate the diameter and radius of the moon. These can be determined from the angular width of the Moon viewed from the Earth and using simple trigonometry.
The...
This post will show a way to calculate the diameters and radii of the planets. These values can be determined when the planet is aligned with the Sun and the Earth. Then, knowing the time period of the...
This post will show a way to calculate the diameter and radius of the sun. These values can be determined from the angular width of the Sun viewed from the Earth and using simple trigonometry.
The...
This post will show a way to calculate the approximate mass of the sun. The value can be determined from knowing the time period of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun and assuming the Earth’s orbit is circular...
This post will show a way to calculate the approximate distances between the sun and planets. This method requires the following steps:Step 1: Use Kepler’s third law to determine the approximate distance...
This post will show a way to calculate the approximate distance between the earth and the moon. This value can be determined from knowing the time period of the Moon’s orbit around the Earth and assuming...
This post shows a way to calculate the approximate mass of the earth. The computation uses Isaac Newton’s second law and his equation for the gravitational force, both published in his book “Principia”...
Walking the Montalceto path is a delight because you get to see the lush, verdant fields in Tuscany. I recommend starting with a stay in Siena.
Siena is a wonderful place to visit for many reasons including...
This post shows an approximate way to calculate the radius of the earth as well as the circumference of the earth. This post uses the method of Eratosthenes.
Eratosthenes (born 276 BC, died 194 BC)...
This post speculates on an eternally cyclic Big Bang arising from merging black holes that ultimately become unstable. It also speculates on the possibility of multiple universes.
Black holes and eternally...